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EG.769.001
27 Dec 1768-3 Jan 1769:911 (1/23)
Journal of the Times. Boston.
All the troops in town marched into the common this morning,
drumming the dead beat: at 8 o'clock, Richard Ames, a
private of the 14th regiment, dressed in white, having just
before had the sacrament administered to him by the Revd.
Mr. Palms, Chaplain of the regiment, who also accompanied
him, was, pursuant to the sentence of a general court-
martial, shot for desertion.
. . . [13 lines follow on the burial ceremony.]
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